A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction
conference paper
Reciprocal self-disclosure is an integral part of social bonding between humans that has received little attention in the field of human-agent interaction. To study how children react to self-disclosures of a virtual agent, we developed a disclosure intimacy rating scale that can be used to assess both the intimacy level of agent disclosures and that of child disclosures. To this end, 72 disclosures were derived from a biography created for the agent and rated by 10 university students for intimacy. A principal component analysis and subsequent k-means clustering of the rated statements resulted in four distinct levels of intimacy based on the risk of a negative appraisal and the impact of betrayal by the listener. This validated rating scale can be readily used with other agents or interfaces.
TNO Identifier
574962
Publisher
Springer
Source title
IVA 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Pages
392-396
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